A Mono developer responds to a request for "a calm presentation of why Mono is desirable, why it is not a threat, and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default" answering the three questions individually, then attempting to address general anti-Mono sentiment.

And the OpenJDK team has pretty much coded around all of the previously encumbered code in SUN's Java...as far as I know the SNMP stuff is the only part left to have a new fully open source implementation rebuilt.